33 Demonetisation Deaths In 7 Days: Hospital Casualties, Suicides, Heart Attacks And Even A Murder

[danger007]

Epic Facepalm on the infographic

1 Hindi and English are the Official Languages of the Central Govt. The Notes are issued by RBI under Central Govt. It is not that Tamil Nadu has other notes, Gujarat other notes and UP other notes.Nor is it that the entire note has been changed to Hindi. Lot of English is already there

2 It is the logo of Swach Bharat Abhiyan based on Mahatma Gandhi's Spectacles

3 How is motif of Lotus, Elephant and Peacock an RSS flag?

Are the govt allowed to print their programmes on the currency?

 

[The_Showstopper]

Day 9: Demonetisation Death Toll Rises To 55

Source: http://www.huffingtonpost.in/2016/11/17/day-9-demonetisation-death-toll-rises-to-55/

 

[ranjeet]

https://twitter.com/x/status/799617091263266816

 

[MilSpec]

So who is "Secular" according to you? And @Ajayk mentioned the word secular in quotes.

These parties chest thump and say they are secular. We just call out their hypocrisy.

BTW what is the definition of Secular - Not the dictionary definition but definition in Indian context

Who is secular, I am, so are my parents, so are most of the people I know. In Indian context anyone who doesn't have prejudices based sections of the society (race, color, caste religion) is a secular.

 

[The_Showstopper]

How demonetisation was wrongly blamed for some unfortunate deaths

I’m embarrassed that I even have to write a piece like this but sadly what I’m about to analyse reflects the pathetic state of the media in India. In particular I’m reacting to a bizarre and ludicrous piece of propaganda alleging a relationship between currency demonetisation and deaths of individuals.

The piece by Deputy Editor of Huffington Post India, Shivam Vij, claims that “there have already been 33 deaths due to demonetisation in 6 days”. The author is thus asserting a causal relationship between the government’s demonetisation of high denomination notes and these deaths.

Vij goes on to cite thirty three cases which allegedly support his claim but it doesn’t take much to figure out, that one can’t establish in any credible way a causal relationship between demonetisation and an individual’s death in so many of these cases.

Start with one of the most ludicrous cases where a “businessman” in Faizabad, Uttar Pradesh allegedly felt chest pains and died soon after watching Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s announcement of demonetisation on November 8. Are we supposed to believe that it was what he was watching that led to his death? So for example, if he were watching Star Wars, would we blame Darth Vader for his death?

Take the case of a 96-year-old man in Udupi, Karnataka who died allegedly waiting in a long queue in a bank. Guess what? The man’s son says his father’s death had nothing to do with waiting in queue at the bank. So this one is at best poor fact checking or poor attempt at propaganda by the author.

Up next, a 45-year-old man in Kerala dies while falling from a construction area in the bank branch where he was depositing money. He had already successfully deposited money the previous day at the same bank. At best, you could blame lack of barricades that would have saved him falling but it’s more than a stretch to blame Modi and demonetisation.

It only gets bizarre from here. An elderly woman in Kanpur died apparently counting currency notes. Tragic, but had she died while reading the newspaper, presumably this intrepid journalist would blame the newspaper for her death?

How about an elderly person who didn’t even have to wait in a queue but collapsed of a heart attack upon reaching the bank? If he’d collapsed outside a movie theatre would this journalist blame the movie that was screened for his death? And even here, the man’s two sons say he had a pre-existing medical condition, wasn’t even standing in line and his death had nothing to do with demonetisation. The family has also expressed anger that their father’s death has been wrongly linked to demonetisation by the media.

Or how about a 45-year-old cashier in Bhopal who collapsed while working at the bank. The spin is he died overworked because of demonetisation but not a shred of evidence is offered to back this up.

A 17-year-old, son of a Border Security Force jawan allegedly commits suicide becausehis mother wouldn’t give him small denomination notes. There’s almost no limit to the implausible connections this writer can draw.

A couple have already been debunked. Consider where a doctor says she had to turn away parents of a sick baby not because they were carrying demonetised notes but she just didn’t have the right equipment to treat the baby. As it happens this doctor is now the subject of a First Information Report.

In another case a wife is allegedly taunted by her husband for her “inability” to stand in a queue at an ATM. She apparently commits suicide and her husband is now the subject of an investigation in abetting her suicide. So let’s get this straight. A possibly abusive husband taunts his wife for not waiting in queue at the mandi, is the vendor now the cause of what played out subsequently?

You get the idea. In each of these cases, someone dies, shortly after demonetisation but there’s no credible causal link between the two events. Also many of these stories have only a single source suggesting perhaps the version of the stories presented didn’t seem entirely credible even to other news organisations.

As I remarked at the outset, it’s embarrassing that one even needs to debunk such tripe. Any death is tragic but it’s shameful and scandalous that they’re wrongly linked to demonetisation, no less than from an international media house like Huffington Post.

That the Huffington Post does not like demonetisation is clear from pieces on the subject such as “Why the demonetisation drive violates our fundamental right to life” as shown below.



This is clearly not journalism nor is it even good propaganda. But that’s the Indian media scene for you.

http://www.opindia.com/2016/11/how-demonetisation-was-wrongly-blamed-for-some-unfortunate-deaths/

Ok let's examine the below cases

A 2-year-old unwell child died in Sambalpur, Odisha, as an autorickshaw drivers refused to take the family to the hospital for want of smaller denomination notes. The family had now-illegal 500 rupee notes.

Lakshminarayana, 75, collapsed and died while waiting in a long queue for over two hours at an Andhra Bank branch Secunderabad, Telangana. He had gone to deposit Rs 1.7 lakh. The bank didn't have a separate queue for senior citizens.

Aziz Ansari, a 60 year old factor worker in Meerut, died of a heart attack in a bank. It was his third day of trying to exchange currency notes.

Komali, an 18 month old baby died in Vizag as the parents didn't have money to buy medicines. The private hospital refused to accept old currency notes of Rs 500 or 1,000.

Doctors in Mainpuri in Uttar Pradesh stopped treating one year old Kush, suffering from high fever, after his parents ran out of 100 rupee notes. The parents brought him home, where he soon died, his father's 500 rupee notes now worthless.

In Chittoor, Andhra Pradesh, 70-year-old Ratna Pillai died waiting in a bank queue. Distressed over the long queue, he approached the bank manager, and collapsed.

Rajesh Kumar, a 56-year-old bank manager in Haryana's Rohtak district, died after working three days and nights at his co-operative bank, handling large crowds.

Source: http://www.huffingtonpost.in/2016/11/17/day-9-demonetisation-death-toll-rises-to-55/

And the author from Opindia very conveniently picks up couple of cases to make a different arguement so that Bhakts can peddle their propoganda

So Supreme Court refused to intervene is something that was unconstitutional?

Since you are so intent on bringing in Supreme Court, let me post some sources for you....

Notes Ban: Problem Is Serious, We Will Have Riots, Says Supreme Court

Source: http://www.ndtv.com/india-news/ther...nt-dispute-supreme-court-on-notes-ban-1627041

“Surgical Strike or Carpet Bombing” – Supreme Court’s remark on people’s suffering due to demonetization

Source: http://www.siasat.com/news/surgical...peoples-suffering-due-demonetization-1066186/

 

[danger007]

In Church one side Christians praying and other side RSS singing .. peaceful coexistence.

 

[Soumitra]

first para.....i agree with fully.
second para.... congressis being votebank suckers dont amount to BJP being entirely secular.

BJP does not do Votebank Politics. How is BJP not secular?

 

[911]

All this fake cries for poor are by none other than same Modi haters. It is not demonetisation which is causing them headache, it is that its Modi who took this step. If it one of their favourite leader, it would been termed as the greatest step against corruption in India.

A lot more people in India die due to corruption or black money. Many die annualy because of pot holes, low quality medicines to save money which goes unaccounted, murders because of property dealings in black and other cases of property dealings which consume time of courts and resources of the government which could be utilized elsewhere. Thekedars don't pay daily wage earner accordingly. A lot of NGOs supposedly working for poor people's welfare recieve donations for their works which is actuallly kept by the workers themselves instead of utilizing it. The sufferings of common people due to black money is endless.

If the political parties of India which are supposed to govern the country themselves are corrupt, then consulting these step with them don't even make sense. The ones making the most noises are either political leaders or their sychophants who mostly live in big bunglows, before demonetisation were absolutely ok with the condition of poors in India. Government had already taked many steps to curb black money which mostly went unoticed (see Mr Naidu's speech). And many more reforms will take place in future now which is 100% surety, but if government had taken those steps but didn't went for demonetisation then the very first question raised by opposition political parties and media alike would have been that why no step is being taken against that black money which is already in circulation. Apparantly anyone can find many reasons and flaws to oppose anything. Regardless of what anyone says, this step has reduced the gap between rich and poor. Even if government is able to recover (amount which is not deposited/exchanged that is) 10% of the total 14 lakh crore rupees demonetised, it will be a success but expect more.

 

[ranjeet]

Since you are so intent on bringing in Supreme Court, let me post some sources for you....

Notes Ban: Problem Is Serious, We Will Have Riots, Says Supreme Court

Source: http://www.ndtv.com/india-news/ther...nt-dispute-supreme-court-on-notes-ban-1627041

“Surgical Strike or Carpet Bombing” – Supreme Court’s remark on people’s suffering due to demonetization

Source: http://www.siasat.com/news/surgical...peoples-suffering-due-demonetization-1066186/

I am sure if you line up people involved in these cases in a queue there will be Massacre.
Supreme Court - 61,436
High Courts - 38,91,076
Lower Courts - 2,30,79,723

 

[911]

Crying of Congress for poor people gives me cancer .

https://twitter.com/x/status/799428874807296000

Only in India opposition party wants every move by government to be a flop even if it hurts Indian interests. They try very hard for it. Indians are not ready to move away from corruption. We are used to dealing in black and want to evade tax like a fundamental right. Tax which can be used for development.

 

[Kyusuibu Honbu]

You'd be a complete fool to believe that this move(demonetisation) is targeted at corruption.

You'd have to be a wretchedly Corrupt person or a Corruption apologist or a pathological Indophobe to state otherwise
In your case it could be all combined

 

[Soumitra]

Are the govt allowed to print their programmes on the currency?

What program is printed on the notes?

 

[911]

Kailash Satyarthi

You have said many times that black money and trafficking has a deep relationship. Do you think demonetization will help?
I know that the common man is facing a lot of difficulties with the demonetization drive in several ways. But, I will say that the drive will definitely help curb trafficking. It will create a lot of problems for the traffickers, the slave masters, and those employing child labourers.

I have spoken on black money with the previous government and the current one. When they talk of black money, the focus is on tax evasion. We have done some scientific studies, and we found that human trafficking, particularly child trafficking, prostitution and child labour, account for the largest segment of black money – much more than what the government estimates. Our estimate is that the trafficking trade in India is worth Rs 21 lakh crore, which includes the black money embedded in it.

Every single rupee generated out of a child labourer, whether it is because of the denial of daily wage, or the denial of contract labour, or the violation of child labour laws, trafficking laws and the like, becomes black money. When a girl is trafficked from Assam, usually for Rs 10,000- Rs 15,000, and brought to Delhi or Haryana to be sold as a child bride, Rs 1,00,000-Rs 1,50,000 change hands. If she has been brought in by placement agencies for domestic labour, she is sold for Rs 40,000-Rs 50,000. All of this is black money.

The government, while replying to a Lok Sabha question a few years ago, accepted that a child labourer earns Rs 20-25 a day, which means an employer spends Rs 20-25 on him or her every day. The floor wages of an adult labourer is Rs 120, even though the minimum wage across states is between Rs 175 and Rs 350.

The situation today has changed slightly. A child labourer earns around Rs 40 and an adult around Rs 240. An employer saves Rs 200 on every child he or she employs. They cannot show on paper that they are employing child labourers. So, they write in wage books that they are paying Rs 240 while they pay only Rs 40. This is black money. For every child, the employer is saving Rs 200 every day. If somebody is employing 50 children in a small workshop, that's Rs 3,00,000 every month.

The good outcome of demonetization is that it has hurt traffickers badly. Yet, in the long run, we need proper enforcement laws relating to the poor, especially those relating to children. Otherwise, the situation will not change. The money will remain, only the bank notes will change.

Full article
http://www.dnaindia.com/india/inter...hunk-of-black-money-kailash-satyarthi-2273130

 

[baajey]

Epic Facepalm on the infographic

1 Hindi and English are the Official Languages of the Central Govt. The Notes are issued by RBI under Central Govt. It is

BJP does not do Votebank Politics. How is BJP not secular?

u make me laugh.

 

[danger007]

What program is printed on the notes?

Swatch bharat.